Olga Grant

Olga Grant, 96, dies from natural causes Nov. 9 at the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow.

Family services will be held later in the summer of 2014. Interment will be in the Highland Cemetery in Glasgow.

She was born on the family farm in the Grain community north of Nashua, daughter of Mikal and Bergit Torgerson. She attended a country school there, later attending and graduating from Nashua High School. After that she worked as a secretary in Glasgow. During that time she met Bud Grant at a community picnic. She was known as "Ole" by family and friends.

In 1941, she married M.H. "Bud" Grant in Glasgow. She and Bud lived in Wheeler during the Fort Peck Dam construction, later moving to southern Venice, where Mr. Grant worked for Douglas Aircraft. He later entered the U.S. Army and was deployed to the European Theatre of World War II.

Four years after the birth of their son, they relocated to Glasgow.

She worked as a bookkeeper at Farmers Union Oil, later working as a school clerk in Glasgow.

For many years she was the principal's secretary at Glasgow High School. She was active in the Rebekah Lodge and Senior Citizens Center. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church, was known as a very good cook, and a great and creative baker.

She was preceded in death by three sisters, Gunda Lebert, Bertha Dehlbom and Evelyn Peterson, and three brothers, Torger "Jack" Torgerson, Harold Torgerson and Olaf Torgerson.

Survivors include one son, Larry Grant, and his wife, Janelle, of Miles City; two grandsons, Joe Grant and his wife, Renee, of Seattle, Wash., and Jeff Grant and his wife, Renee, of Missoula, and great-granddaughter, Elle; a granddaughter Katie Grannis of Piscataway, N.J., and twin great-grandchildren, Logan and Riley; and one sister, Stella Hallett, of Glasgow.

Bell Mortuary of Glasgow was in charge of arrangements.